[78-L] How many records are around?

[Michael Biel]

DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> Steven Barr wrote:
>
> Based on my guess that there exist around 3 million different 78's in
> total, 
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> I heard somewhere recently, (don't know where, perhaps on this list), that the library of congress has 9,000,000 78s.
>
> db
No, I think they talk about 1.5 million total recordings, so 78s are 
only a fraction of that.

Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com